Category: Architecture
"'Home' in the true sense should be warm heartedā€¦ A place of refuge. A place of intimacy, domesticity, meaning and freedom." Sarah-Jane Pyke discusses the two points of inspiration behind the Alex Hotel's design: the concept of the hotel as home, and a curious character named Alex...
"We want to humanise tall buildings, to celebrate the pedestrian level and consider how people experience it.ā€¯ In AR, Koichi Takada discusses the importance of connecting tall buildings with the surrounding screetscape, and their groundbreaking design for Sydney's Infinity building.
"Sky One will be seen from great distances because it is surrounded by low rise buildings and sits on the peak of Box Hillā€™s central hill, giving it a unique vantage point." DKO director, Jesse Linardi, discusses designing Box Hill's Sky One tower ā€“ a giant 35-storey structure set to take root in Melbourne suburb Box Hill.
The Shanghai Tower, the second tallest building in the world, features significant technological innovations, including a tapering asymmetrical form designed to reduce wind loads and a double curtain wall that creates space for garden atrium sky lobbies. The latest issue of AR explores the intimate elements of this giant, spiralling structure.
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